Everyone's best friend Bloom joins us to talk about how developers these days spend so much time doing everything else that development feels like a reward rather than the job itself. 

We debate whether Slack or meetings are more harmful to our productivity, and whether being a specialist or a generalist makes it more likely to have both continual career growth and lots of time to write code.

Relevant blog post from the the founder of Gumroad about how they launch entire products with zero meetings: https://shl.medium.com/no-meetings-no-deadlines-no-full-time-employees-a8bccd23c766

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